Download movies from the web

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As most of us know, www.stage6.com is a great place to get videos from the internet. Unfortunately, people have been known to upload HD-quality licensed movies to the site, and people watch them before the admins can take them down... but we'll not speak of that here. It uses a proprietary DivX web player, but someone figured out how to directly download videos to be played on the PS3.

 

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/12/18/downlo...os-from-stage6/

 

The above link explains how to do this in detail, but here's the gist: find a movie on the site using the PS3 web browser. The URL will look something like this:

www.stage6.com/category/xxxxxx/name-of-movie

Where "xxxxxx" is some number. The movie won't play in the browser, but if you edit the URL to look like this:

video.stage6.com/xxxxxx/.divx

You'll get a pop-up message asking if you want to download the video. I've tried it and it works; unfortunately, the download stopped at 97% with no way to resume because I made the grave mistake of popping in a DVD. So much for "background downloading".